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Make Excel worksheets available offline
Hello, Office Insiders! Hugo Garcia, Product Manager on the Office team is excited to announce that you can now make Excel worksheets stored in the cloud available offline when using youriPhone oriPad. Make Excel worksheets available offline You can now have the best of both worlds:save your files to the cloud so your data is safe and available on all your devices, and choose which files you want to be able to access offline. How it works Open Excel (or the Office app) on your iPhone or iPad. In the Home screen, tap theMore Optionsmenu (“…”) for the worksheet you want to be able to view or edit while offline. Tap theMake Available Offlineoption. Find out the rest here in theblog post! Cheers, Nathan Office Insider Community Manager Become an Office Insider and gaining exclusive access to new features and help shape the future of Office. Join Now:Windows|Mac|iOS|AndroidInteractive data storytelling with Power BI in PowerPoint
Hi, Office Insiders! Camille Birch, Product Manager on the PowerPoint team is incredibly excited to share that PowerPoint now supports embedding live, interactive Power BI reports right into your slides! Interactive data storytelling with Power BI By embedding live Power BI reports in your slides, you can tell interactive, data-focused stories. No more copying and pasting inevitably out-of-date screenshots or switching between your PowerPoint slides and your Power BI report during a presentation. You can now build narratives around your data and drive meaningful conversations through interactive reports right in PowerPoint. This feature is a long-standing customer request. We are happy to bring it to you and support your growing needs for data storytelling in increasingly data-driven workplaces and cultures. How it works Open a new or existing presentation in PowerPoint. To insert a Power BI report in the current slide, selectInsert>Power BI. Find out the rest here in theblog post! Cheers, Nathan Office Insider Community Manager Become an Office Insider and gaining exclusive access to new features and help shape the future of Office. Join Now:Windows|Mac|iOS|AndroidEasily switch between editing, reviewing, and viewing documents in Word
Kimberley Chua, Product Manager on the Word team is excited to share that they've made it even easier to switch between editing, reviewing, and viewing your documents in Word for Windows. Switch between editing, reviewing, and viewing Have you ever been concerned about making unintended changes while reviewing a file written by a colleague? Use Viewing mode and be assured that you won’t be able to type on the canvas while reading the document. Switch to Reviewing mode to turn on Track Changes Just Mine and leave behind tracked changes in the document (or leave comments) when you want to offer suggestions. We’ve updated Word for Windows so you can now easily change between modes with a couple clicks. How it works Open any Word document for which you have edit permissions. Click theEditingbutton in the ribbon (in the top-right corner, next to theSharebutton), and then clickReviewingorViewingto switch to a different way of working with your document. (NOTE:The button name will change based on the selected mode.) Check out the rest of the story on this awesome feature,right here. Cheers, Nathan Office Insider Community Manager Become an Office Insider and gaining exclusive access to new features and help shape the future of Office. Join Now:Windows|Mac|iOS|AndroidMake PowerPoint presentations more accessible with closed captions in embedded videos
Hi, Office Insiders! Peter Wu, Principal Software Engineer on the PowerPoint team, in honor ofGlobal Accessibility Awareness Day, wanted to highlight the importance of making your presentations accessible to people with disabilities. And to help you do that, is thrilled to announce you can now add closed captions to embedded videos for your presentations in PowerPoint for Mac. Closed captions in embedded videos You’ve no doubt seen captions before while watching a video—they are the words that appear on top of the video as it plays (often at the bottom of the screen). Studies show thatcaptions benefit everyone who watches videos, especially those watching videos in their non-native language, people learning to read, and individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. Others might choose to use captions when their surroundings are too noisy to hear the video or they need to be quiet (and don’t have headphones). Closed captions are content that is stored separately from the video pixels so that the person watching can turn them on or off. Videos often include multiple closed captions tracks: one in the language of the video and others in additional languages. While PowerPoint for Mac canplay closed captionsthat are encoded into the video file, it can be a challenging process to encode closed captions into a video. It’s typically easier to store the closed captions in a separate file. Now you can take closed caption files inWebVTTformat and insert them into an embedded video in PowerPoint for Mac. How it works 1. To insert closed captions in an embedded video, select the video and chooseInsert Captionson thePlaybacktab. Check out the rest of the story on this awesome feature,right here. Cheers, Nathan Office Insider Community Manager Become an Office Insider and gaining exclusive access to new features and help shape the future of Office. Join Now:Windows|Mac|iOS|AndroidBetter manage your notes with the new Home page in OneNote for Android
Hi Office Insiders! Siddharth Rao, Product Manager on the OneNote team is excited to announce the new Home page in OneNote for Android. It makes it easier to create, find, and act on your notes on your phone. Home page The Home page shows the Notebook pages, Sticky notes, and Samsung Notes from all your connected accounts in a single unified view. It enables you to take quick actions, such as deleting, moving, copying, sharing, or adding notes to your mobile’s home screen by long pressing the note card and selecting the desired command. Check out the rest of the story,right here. Cheers, Nathan Office Insider Community Manager Become an Office Insider and gaining exclusive access to new features and help shape the future of Office. Join Now:Windows|Mac|iOS|AndroidCreate business frameworks and infographic timelines in Visio for the web
Meet Sanghvi, Program Manager on the Visio team, is excited to share with you the availability of new diagram types in Visio for the web that will allow you to quickly create business frameworks and infographic timelines. You can check out the full library of diagram types available in Visio for the web ataka.ms/visio-templates. Business frameworks and infographic timelines We heard from many of you in a variety of industries, including healthcare, education, and manufacturing, that you rely on Visio to create visuals in your day-to-day activities as business executives, and human resources and marketing professionals. We’re excited to introduce new diagram shapes and sample diagrams in Visio for the web. Using these building blocks, you can create, visualize, and collaborate on effective workflows, processes, business models, value chains, sales strategies, and so much more. This includes new templates for popular business frameworks, including Porter’s Five Forces, PESTLE analysis, 5 whys, the 4 Ps of marketing, and the strategy diamond. We’re also adding new templates to help you quickly create visual timelines for product launch roadmaps, marketplace rollouts, marketing plans, event schedules, and smart yearly goals. And we will continue to add new content and features for additional use cases to enhance your diagramming experience so your requests are welcome! How it works Typevisio.office.comin the Search bar of your browser. In theNewsection at the top of the page, click theMore templateslink. The rest of the info,right here Cheers, Nathan Office Insider Community Manager Become an Office Insider and gaining exclusive access to new features and help shape the future of Office. Join Now:Windows|Mac|iOS|AndroidImproved Recommended PivotTables experience in Excel
Hi, Office Insiders! Olivia Thomas, Product Manager on the Excel team is excited to introduce our new and improved Recommended PivotTables experience in Excel for Windows. Improved Recommended PivotTables experience Recommended PivotTables are now more intelligent, utilizing the same technology as theAnalyze Datafeature. In addition, we have replaced the dialog box interface with a redesigned panel. This updated user experience makes it easier to view all of your options, and simpler to change your data selection before inserting a recommended PivotTable. We continue to work on enhancing this feature, and your feedback is encouraged! Find out how it all works,right here: Cheers, Nathan Office Insider Community Manager Become an Office Insider and gaining exclusive access to new features and help shape the future of Office. Join Now:Windows|Mac|iOS|AndroidThe new Outlook for Windows helps you be more productive and in control of your inbox
Hey, Office Insiders! Margie Clinton, Group Product Manager on the Outlook team is excited to share that an early preview of the new Outlook for Windows is now available toOfficeInsidersin theBeta Channelto try! New Outlook for Windows During Ignite 2020, we shared our vision for the “Evolution of Outlook.” Recently we introducedthe new Outlook for Macto customers running Beta Channel builds. Today, we are taking our next step by sharing a preview of the new Outlook for Windows, designed to help you be more productive and stay in control of your inbox. This version has new intelligent features like message reminders and a new calendar board that puts your email, calendar, and To Do in the same view. In addition, withMicrosoft Loopcomponents, you can collaborate across Outlook and Teams while staying in the flow. How it works If you are running Beta Channel builds, simply slide theTry the New Outlooktoggle located in the upper-right corner of your classic Outlook for Windows, and follow the onscreen instructions. The rest of the info,right here Cheers, Nathan Office Insider Community Manager Become an Office Insider and gaining exclusive access to new features and help shape the future of Office. Join Now:Windows|Mac|iOS|AndroidMake your organization's fonts available in PowerPoint for the web
Hello, Office Insiders! Jess Kwok, a Product Manager on the PowerPoint team is excited to share that your organization’sfonts are now supported on PowerPoint for the web. Organization’s fonts We know that custom fonts are key to maintaining your organization’s brand identity. So, seamless use and rendering of fonts are vital when collaborating and creating content in PowerPoint. Now, with a few simple steps, your administrator can upload your fonts to SharePoint for your entire organization to use in their PowerPoint creations. How it works Create a site in SharePointor use an existing site that isalready being usedas anassetlibrary. NOTE:You can’t customize the permissions of organization’s font asset libraries as the fonts are hosted on apublic CDN. When uploaded, font asset libraries become available across your entire tenant. The ability to set permissions at a sub group level for font asset libraries is currently not supported. Navigate to your site’s home pageandselectNew>Document library. Find out how it all works,right here Cheers, Nathan Office Insider Community Manager Become an Office Insider and gaining exclusive access to new features and help shape the future of Office. Join Now:Windows|Mac|iOS|AndroidStay in line with gridlines in PowerPoint for Mac
Howdy, Office Insiders! Eleanor Huynh, Product Manager on the PowerPoint team is happy to share with you that keeping objects lined up in your presentations is easier than ever, now that gridlines are available in PowerPoint for Mac! Gridlines in PowerPoint for Mac The popular Gridlines feature you love in PowerPoint for Windows is now available for the Mac. This handy feature applies a grid of dotted lines across your slide and gives you visual cues, making it simple to align shapes, images, text boxes, and more when creating your slides. How it works Ready to give gridlines in PowerPoint for Mac a try? 1. Open an existing presentation and select a slide. 2. On the View tab, select the Gridlines check box. View tab in PowerPoint for Mac showing the Gridlines option checked. Find out the rest here in theblog post! Cheers, Nathan Office Insider Community Manager Become an Office Insider and gaining exclusive access to new features and help shape the future of Office. Join Now:Windows|Mac|iOS|Android
